InterSystems Enterprise Manager provides customers with centralized tools to manage, provision, and synchronize instances in their enterprise. It eliminates the need for administrators to go to each machine to perform management activities for standardized configuration, security, user definition, and license settings.

I became aware of a very interesting project at the European Space Agency: the Gaia mission. It is considered by the experts to be “the biggest data-processing challenge to date in astronomy.”
I wanted to know more. I interviewed William O’Mullane, Science Operations Development Manager at the European Space Agency, and Vik Nagjee, Product Manager, Core Technologies at InterSystems Corporation, both deeply involved with the Proof-of-Concept of the data management part of this project.
I hope you enjoy this interview.

At its core, the Globals database is powered by an extremely efficient multidimensional data engine. The exposed interface support access to the multidimensional structures – providing the highest performance and greatest range of storage possibilities. A multitude of applications can be implemented entirely using this data engine directly.

There is no data dictionary, and thus no data definitions, for the multidimensional data engine.

Globals (v2012.296) release introduces the .NET API for the Globals Database, along with improvements and corrections to the existing Java & Node.js APIs.